Fat overheads, paying for stuff you don’t need, poorly performing team members, blow-outs in your cost of goods sold and trying to flog products and services that the market no longer needs or wants, these are the Klingons off your starboard bow that reduce your profit. While they can seem threatening, here I’ve outlined THREE…
Every successful ‘enterprise’ (pardon the pun) needs a strong crew of highly trained and qualified individuals who perform at their individual best so that the whole may prosper. Here’s what I’ve learned working with fast growing businesses…
There are two important considerations that esports business owners need to address: Financial Oversight and Financial Insight. The first is the key to day to day survival. The second is essential for thriving over the longer term. Importantly, Financial Insight includes providing ‘fresh eyes’ that can discover opportunities, expose issues that are in plain sight…
No one knows better than you, how competitive video gaming or esports has exploded in popular culture. In the last few years, what was largely competition between amateurs has transitioned to a global profession that NewZoo reported was worth $US696million in 2017 and tipped to exceed $US1.5 billion by 2020. In the coming weeks I’d…
Back in 2006, a small but innovative New Zealand company launched a real-time accounting program for non-accountants. Its good sense and simplicity soon heralded calls for business owners to get ‘in the cloud’. Fast forward to 2018, where cloud accounting for financial management is largely the norm for businesses (certainly for my clients), and the…